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AGENDA

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The Mediterranean Sea is a unique geographical and cultural space that unites 22 countries

and over 450 million people, of which most live in the coastal strip. Breaking with its history of

solidarity and shared prosperity, a series of crises is threatening its future.

At the environmental level, climate change and human pollution irreversibly degrade natural

resources quality and weaken secure access to water, energy and food. The Mediterranean Sea

has been described as one of the areas most affected by marine litter in the world.

At the geopolitical level, ideological and armed conflicts provoke uncontrolled migrations and

social turbulences between and within countries.

At the economic level, high unemployment and low competiveness increase poverty and

inequalities in the population.

This event aims to reflect on those major regional challenges from a collaborative, creative

and participative way. It puts the focus on the Mediterranean Sea as a source of opportunities

for common well-being. It imagines new solutions towards a more sustainable and inclusive

development of the Mediterranean region. This event, organized by Mediterranean civil society,

offers debates, workshops, exhibitions and meetings with the participation of key stakeholders

from the Euro-Mediterranean political, economic and social world.

This year eco-forum, organized by eco-union with the support of Surfrider Foundation Europe and

ENT Fundació, is focused on critical issues such as Blue Economy, Governance and specifi cally on

Marine Litter. To strengthen the commitment of the Mediterranean civil society the Marine Litter

issue, the Barcelona Declaration will be discused and endorsed in a participative workshop.

Introduction


9h00 – 9h30 Registration

9h30 – 10h00 Opening and Welcome

Frederic Ximeno, Commissioner of Ecology, Barcelona City Council

Josep Ferrer, Director, European Institute of the Mediterranean

Maren Siemers, Official of the European Commission

Jérémie Fosse, President, eco-union

10h00 - 11h30 Sharing the Mediterranean: Dialogue on the governance of the Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean is suffering multiple, complex and inter-connected crisis that put into

danger its future. What are the instruments, regulations and stakeholders necessary for a better

governance of our common sea?

• Najib Saab, Secretary general, Arab Forum for Environment and Development

• Miguel García-Herraiz, Deputy Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean

• Ellen Lemaitre-Curri, Director, Plan Bleu, UNEP/MAP

• Rafael Sardà Borroy, Senior Scientist of the National Council of Research CEAB – CSIC

Moderator: Antonio Troya, Director, IUCN Mediterranean

11h30 – 12h00 Coffee break and networking

Drap’Art Exhibition.

Beverages and cookies available at reception.

Program

12h00-13h30 Preserving the Mediterranean: Dialogue on marine litter and circular economy

The Mediterranean Sea is getting increasing polluted by land and marine litter. How waste

policies, Sustainable Consumption and Production patterns and the so-called Circular Economy

can reduce environmental pressures, improve our life quality and create jobs at the same time?

• Carmen Morales, Professor, Universidad de Cádiz (UCA)

• Emma Priestland, Marine Litter Coordinator, Seas at Risk

• Mamoun Ghallab, representative, Break Free from Plastic Mediterranean

• Ignasi Mateo Rodriguez, Project Manager, (SCP/RAC)

• Sara Güemes Santos, LIBERA Project coordinator, SEO/BirdLife & Ecoembes

Moderator: Ignasi Puig, Director, ENT

13h30 - 15h00 Lunch break

Catering available only for speakers at Summak Lebanese Restaurant

15h00-17h00 Participative Workshop on marine Litter issues in the Mediterranean area: Barcelona Commitment

Ahead of the next COP20 for the Barcelona Convention, the Mediterranean institutions and

NGOs outline the Barcelona Commitment to face marine litter in the Mediterranean area for 2025.

Moderator and workshop facilitator: Vanessa Sarah Salvo, Coordinator, Surfrider Foundation

Europe, Spain Delegation.

Organized by Surfrider Foundation Europe and Fundació ENT


17h00-17h30 Exchange of experiences and best practices

Borja Lafuente, CSR Manager, Danone/Lanjaron

Antonio Guillem, Director Fundación Global Nature

Raquel Palomeque Camacho, Head of European projects, Fundación Biodiversidad

Giuliano Petroni and Emanuele Troli, Blue Packaging

Moderator: Alejándro González: Project Manager, eco-union

17h30-18h00 Conclusions from the workshop and fi nal closing

eco-union

ENT Foundation

Surfrider Foundation Europe

18h00-19h00 Presentation of the book “Nature & Sustainabilityin the Mediterranean”

Maria-Àngels Roque, director for Mediterranean cultures, European Institute of the Mediterranean

Jérémie Fosse, president, eco-union

Najib Saab, Secretary general, Arab Forum for Environment and Development

JÉRÉMIE FOSSEFounder and director of the Global Eco Forum, co-founder and

president of eco-union - an international environmental non-profi t

association. J. Fosse advises public and private institutions around

corporate responsability and the green economy. He holds an Msc in

Industrial Engineering at INSA Lyon and an Executive MBA at ESADE

Business School.

JOSEP FERRÉSince 2007, Josep Ferré has been Managing Director at IEMed and

Acting General Director since September 2017. Between 2004 and

2006 he was the Director General of the Spanish Offi ce of the ANREF.

Before that, he was the Executive Secretary of the Azahar Program

of the AECID between 2001 and 2004. He obtained the title of

agronomist in 1993 at the Technical School of Agricultural Engineering

of Lleida (ETSEAL).

MIGUEL GARCÍA-HERRAIZDeputy Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean in

charge of Water and Environment. García-Herraiz is a Spanish career

diplomat who has served the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for

the past twenty years, holding positions as Deputy Director General

for International Affairs of Terrorism and Disarmament, and, lately, as

Counsellor in charge of the relations between the European Union

and Southern Mediterranean countries.

Speakers


MAMOUN GHALLABFounder of “Zero Zbel” and “MakeSense Consulting”. “Zero Zbel” (www.

zerozbel.ma) is a Moroccan non-profit which aims at making people

conscious of their ability to impulse impactful positive changes, and

seeks to promote zero waste models at individual and collective levels.

Zero Zbel is part of the “Break Free From Plastic Movement”. “MakeSense

Consulting” is a consulting company specialized in sustainable

development issues (www.makesense.ma).

SARA GÜEMES SANTOSShe helds a degree in Advertising and Public Relations, a Master’s

in Corporate Communication, and a Master’s Degree in Education.

She develops her career in communication agencies where she is

linked to educational, cultural and tourism issues fundamentally. She

began her career in the environmental field with LIBERA, SEOBirdLife

and Ecoembes, where she coordinates the projects, joining efforts

among the different actors involved.

ELLEN LEMAITRE-CURRIPlan Bleu’s Chairman, with a background in agricultural & rural

development economics and environmental policies. In 2006, she

joined the Commissioner-General for Sustainable Development

(CGDD) within the French Ministry. Here Lemaitre-Curri was in charge

of themes such as, land policies, urbanism and environment as head

of unit for environmental economics and financial instruments. She

later became the head of unit for global public goods themes such

as, climate, biodiversity, forests, and oceans.

IGNASI MATEO RODRIGUEZProject Manager of the Interreg Med ACT4LITTER project at the

Regional Activity Center for Consumer and Sustainable Production

(SCP / RAC). Ignasi works to develop effective and specific measures

to fight against Marine Litter in Marine Protected Areas (AMP) of the

Mediterranean. He has been involved in different issues related to

Marine Litter as a technician of the Waste Agency of Catalonia.

CARMEN MORALESResearch Scientist at the Marine Plastic Pollution Lab at the Faculty

of Marine and Environmental Sciences in the Universidad de Cádiz

(UCA, Spain) where she is working with Professor Andres Cózar’s

team on understanding the inputs, distribution and fate of micro and

macroplastics in the Mediterranean and the Global Ocean. Carmen

holds a PhD in Marine Sciences specialized in marine pollution and

ecotoxicology, in addition to an Erasmus Mundus Master’s degree in

Water and Coastal Management.

IGNASI PUIG VENTOSAPhD in Environmental Sciences, Co-Owner and Project Manager at

ENT Fundació. He coordinates the areas of Environmental Economics

and Waste Management. His specialities are the preventative

management of municipal waste and economic environmental

policies applied to different areas such as waste, climate change,

energy management and nature conservation


EMMA PRIESTLANDMarine litter policy offi cer at Seas At Risk, she works to strengthen

the implementation of existing legislation, and call for new policies

to tackle the input of waste to the oceans. Focus areas include: the

Marine Strategy Framework Directive, Circular Economy, waste and

packaging legislation, and the Port Reception Facilities Directive.

Member of expert groups: EU Technical Group on Marine Litter, the

OSPAR Intersessional Correspondence Group on Marine Litter and

the European Sustainable Shipping Forum PRF subgroup.

MARIA-ÀNGELS ROQUEDirector for Mediterranean cultures, European Institute of the

Mediterranean (IEMED). Editor-in-Chief of the journal Quaderns de

la Mediterrània. She holds a PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology

and a degree in Modern History from the University of Barcelona. She has

undertaken forward-looking and anthropological research in the Iberian

Peninsula and the western Mediterranean, especially in Morocco. She

currently works with the Euro-Mediterranean civil society networks.

NAJIB SAABAlthough an architect by training, is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Al-Bia

Wal-Tanmia (Environment & Development), a leading pan-Arab magazine

on sustainable development. Saab, has varied experience, ranging from

designing for General Motors and lecturing on corporate architecture, to

advising various governments and agencies on environment, sustainable

development, and technology and is the Secretary General of Arab

Forum for Environment & Development (AFED).

VANESSA SARAH SALVOShe has a PhD in Environmental Sciences with a specialization in

Marine Science at the University of Genoa (Italy) and Master in

Project Management from the University of Barcelona. Since 2014

she has been in charge of the Spanish Delegation of the European

Surfrider Foundation. She has worked nationally and internationally

for public environmental management agencies, universities and

NGOs, always within the framework of environmental protection and

management of coastal areas and inland waters.

RAFAEL SARDÁ BORROYSenior scientist at the National Council of Scientifi c Research (CSIC),

and researcher on the CEAB’s Marine and Coastal Socio-Ecological

Systems Unit. Sardá focuses on how the ecological and social

systems work and interact, exploring how to deal with current and

emerging environmental, local, and global issues and the role, that

science and regulations play. His main fi elds of research include the

integrated management of the coastal zone and the administration

of the oceans, ecology of the submarine bottom, and sustainability.

MAREN SIEMERSMaren was a University teacher for 7 years in the fi eld of Applied

Linguistics and Philology at La Laguna University of Tenerife and

Polytechnic University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Until 2016

Conference interpreter of DG SCIC in the German and the Spanish

booth, she is now responsible for Communication and Information

for Citizens within the Representation of the European Commission

in Barcelona, focussing on publications, Conference organization and

EU Communication Networks.


ANTONIO TROYALicensed in Biological Sciences, specialized in Environmental Biology,

from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Antonio has carried out

diverse senior positions in the Spanish State Administration and 9

years in the European Institutions, fi rst in the European Commission

and in the European Council. In June 2010, Antonio was appointed

as Director of the Center of Mediterranean Cooperation of the

International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN-Med).

FREDERIC XIMENOCommissioner of Ecology at Barcelona City Council. He has worked

in the fi elds of environment, urban and environmental planning, and

climate management for twenty-fi ve years. As a consultant, his work

has focused on strategic environmental, climate, territorial, and urban

strategies. Ximeno was the general director of Environmental Policies

and Sustainability of the Government of Catalonia for four years.

Among other jobs he has been a consultant for the United Nations

Development Program (UNDP).

Exchange of experiencesand best practices

ANTONIO GUILLEM14 years of professional experience dedicated to the conservation of

the environment and to the execution and management of hydraulic

works, both in the fi eld of the public and private sectors. He is

currently the projects coordinator of the Global Nature Foundation.

RAQUEL PALOMEQUE CAMACHOBiologist. Project Manager at Fundación Biodiversidad. Specialist in

developing projects with European funds and marine environment.

Began his professional career at the Spanish Institute of

Oceanography (IEO) in Málaga, where she participated in projects

related to Mediterranean fi sheries.

GIULIANO PETRONI and EMANUELE TROLIBiologist and MSc in Aquaculture from the University of Barcelona.

He worked at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) and co-

founded El Peix al Plat SCP. Over the past few years his work has

mainly focused on promoting sustainable fi sh consumption and

environmental sustainability. Currently he coordinates the Blue

Packaging Project, proposed by the Blu Marine Service (Italy).

ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZHead of projects at eco-union and board member of environmental

NGOs. He is working on urban policy research, conferences and

project management for sustainable development. His main research

area is focused on mobility transitions and policies.

BORJA LAFUENTESocial Corporative Responsibility Manager at Danone Iberia and

responsible of ReNueva, a project based on Circular Economy that

seeks to promote the recycling of packaging in the consumption

channel outside the home environment through social inclusion. Borja

holds a degree in Law, a degree in Political Science & Administration.

Also in 2016 he fi nalized a Executive MBA at EADA (Barcelona).


Notes

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